Re: Price Increases !!!!! Abandonment rate

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@xxxxxxx>]

OK.  Plan to educate your VP.  One of my customers was purchased a few years 
back
by a company with this menatality.  The customer was running JBA and Future/3 on
a CISC AS/400 and Novell for File/Print.  The other organization was installing
NT servers and software.  The list of required NT servers for each location kept
getting longer and longer and the 'firm cutover' date farther and farther out as
they dealt with performance and operational problems in the initial sites. 
Additionally when word got out that they had F/3, the requests to process 
certain
EDI transactions which the NT package could not handle came pouring in.  After
about 18 months the customer demanded an AS/400 upgrade and was shocked when the
VP agreed! It was because they were the only site where staff hadn't tripled and
the budget was stable. (They had not yet begun to get any of their NT servers!) 
AS/400 has not yet taken over the rest of the business but boy they are on the
radar screen now!

 - Larry

"Allen, Stuart" wrote:
> 
> Despite our european business being run from JBA / AS400 with absolutely no
> problems, a low TCO, a small but highly skilled team of IT staff covering
> all aspects of the business, the (US based) VP has decided that "in the
> interests of global standards" to move to Oracle/NT over the next 3-5 years.
> 
> So i expect in five years to be running a ERP suite that costs significantly
> more, on a platform thats totally unreliable and bugridden, with a team ten
> times the size just trying to keep it running.
> 
> AS/400's weren't even considered as a platform.
> 
> Regards,
> Stuart
> 
> Stuart Allen
> European Systems Analyst
> Fellowes
> 
> mailto:sallen@fellowes.com
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Randy Mangham [SMTP:randym69@pacbell.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 1999 4:08 AM
> > To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> > Subject:      Re: Price Increases !!!!! Abandonment rate
> >
>         <snip>
> > Nearly every local company I'm aware of that has installed a
> > major ERP system in the last 5 years has moved off the AS/400 to Unix.
> >
> > Randy Mangham
> > Pacific Crest Consulting
> > San Diego, CA
> >
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